Best Reading Series

Taken as a group, Town Hall, Elliott Bay Book Co., University Book Store, and Third Place Books draw far more visiting authors to town, and Seattle is blessed to have such literary abundance, but Seattle Arts & Lectures brings the heavyweights. This fall's season will include ever-prolific novelist T.C. Boyle, author and New York Times food writer Mark Bittman, and The New Yorker's legal-affairs expert Jeffrey Toobin (Oct. 10), who should have a lot to say about both Citizens United and the surprising Obamacare decision in his forthcoming new book, The Oath: The Secret Struggle for the Supreme Court. We can't wait to hear the dirt on Justice Roberts—or how long Toobin thinks Scalia will live. Because he can't live forever, right? BRIAN MILLER 105 S. Main St. #201, 621-2230, lectures.org